The following academic research training posts are funded by the Department’s research capacity development programme.
Number Academic Clinical Fellows1 Cancer 75 Coronary Heart Disease 241 Stroke 261 Clinical Lecturers3 Cancer 31 Coronary Heart Disease 20 Stroke 27 Personal Awards4 Cancer 16 Coronary Heart Disease 8 Stroke 5 1 Academic research training posts for junior doctors in training. 2 Some posts may be shared with other specialties. 3 Academic research training posts for junior doctors who have completed a PhD. 4 Academic research training posts for PhDs and post-doctoral awards.
The following academic research training posts are funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England in partnership with the Department.
Number Clinical Senior Lectureships Cancer 5 Coronary Heart Disease 4 Stroke 4 Total number of posts Cancer 127 Coronary Heart Disease 73 Stroke 97
Other posts are funded through local use of Government funds. Details of these posts are not available.
The Medical Research Council (MRC) is one of the main agencies through which the United Kingdom Government support medical and clinical research.
The MRC currently supports around 300 fellows and 100 capacity building and industrial collaborative students through its research career award schemes. The number of those currently supported in the areas of cancer, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular research are shown in the table.
Fellowship type Cancer Cardiovascular Cerebrovascular Capacity Building Student 1 4 1 Industrial Collaborative Student 1 — — Clinical Training Fellowship 21 5 4 Special Training Fellowship in HSR 4 6 1 Stem Cell Career Development Fellowship 1 0 1 Career Development Award 3 1 2 Clinician Scientist Fellowship 5 4 3 Senior Non-Clinical Fellowship 1 1 1 Senior Clinical Fellowship 3 1 0 Total 40 22 13
The MRC also supports around 1,000 further students through doctoral training accounts to universities. The information that would be needed to classify those awards by reference to disease areas is not held centrally.